Feeling nasa Europe?

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Kahit ako hindi ko gets yan europlate na yan, unless naka exotic ka nga na luxury euro cars? maybe i'll consider.
pag nga nakakasabay ko sa daan yun ganyan i would like to ask them "who you foolin?".
isama mo pa yun mga lumang bulok tapos may naka salpak na europlate? HANEP! jejemon! hehe

[niky]

Ever since hindi ko maintindihan ang reasoning kung bakit naglalagay ang isang tao ng euro-plate, pero ang kotse nya nandito sa Pilipinas.

Almost lahat na kotse ko euro, pero ni minsan hindi ako naglagay or bumili ng europlate para sa mga yun. Ang mahal pa nun!

Used to be... if you could afford to import a European car... you were "astig". These high-end imports came with "Euro-plates".

Of course... that's all changed. Nowadays, if you can afford a brand new car... you're "astig". Having a real Euro-plate on the back of your car tells people you're too fricking cheap or poor to afford a brand new car, and you had to go all the way to Port Irene to cheat on taxes and get it.

Hmmm... puwedeng racket yun. Checkpoint... stop all cars with Euro Plates. Tell them they have to produce the importation papers. When they say: "Hindi po... local ito" and show their registration, tell them that you know their registration is fake, because there are Euro Plates on the car. It will have to be impounded pending an investigation by the anti-carjacking group.

Should make them sweat... a lot.

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Saka Bakit kailangan bumili Tapos ilalagay naman Sa ilalim ng local plate?


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Saka Bakit kailangan bumili Tapos ilalagay naman Sa ilalim ng local plate?


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Labo diba?

[renzo_d10]

Meron nanaman ako nakita kanina... Bimmer nanaman.

Had only EU plates at front, pero sa likod EU plates + RP plates.

Di naman siguro nawala plaka niya?

Eto yung pix ng car niya. Dami picture netong M3 na 'to sa internet.



Ganda ulit, diba?

Pero ayun nga. Sayang. Parang lang yun sa 1-series na BMW, ang ganda.. pero sana naman hinde tinanggal yung front RP plates. There's a reason why we have a pair... kung di naman ilalagay at nakakalusot, edi lahat tayo EU plate nalang ilagay wag na RP plates!

[jon777]

Renzo, hindi M3 yan. Poser lang talaga yang tao na yan, binili nya lang yung M badge tapos nilagay sa kotse niya.... feeling nasa Europe tapos feeling M3 pa

[Starex_Gold]

Hindi nga siya mukhang M3 sedan.

This is a legitimate M3 sedan

[tomboy]

"This is a country where the national ambition is to change your nationality,'
- James Fallows

A Damaged Culture: A New Philippines?
By James Fallows

November 1, 1987, 2:25 AM ET

"Here is a land in which a few are spectacularly rich while the masses remain abjectly poor. . . . Here is a land consecrated to democracy but run by an entrenched plutocracy. Here, too, are a people whose ambitions run high, but whose fulfillment is low and mainly restricted to the self-perpetuating elite.'

The precise phrasing belongs to Benigno Aquino, in his early days in politics, but the thought has been expressed by hundreds of others.

If the problem in the Philippines does not lie in the people themselves or, it would seem, in their choice between capitalism and socialism, what is the problem? I think it is cultural, and that it should be thought of as a failure of nationalism.

BECAUSE PREVIOUS CHANGES OF GOVERNMENT HAVE meant so little to the Philippines, it is hard to believe that replacing Marcos with Aquino, desirable as it doubtless is, will do much besides stanching the flow of crony profits out of the country.

"This is a country where the national ambition is to change your nationality,' an American who volunteers at Smoky Mountain told me.

One morning this summer, as I stared out the window at the monsoon rain, I listened to two foreign economists describe the economic trap in which the Philippines is caught. The men had worked in the Philippines for years and had absorbed the ethic of delicadeza.

Manufacturing? "There were not many viable sectors to begin with, and most of them were taken over by cronies. The industrial sector is used to guarantee monopoly and high-tariff protection. It's inward-looking, believes it cannot compete. People are used to paying a lot for goods that are okay-to-shoddy in quality. Labor costs are actually quite high for a country at this stage of development.

Agriculture? "It's been heavily skewed for fifty years to plantation crops. All those traditional exports are down, sugar most of all. Copra is okay for the moment, but it's never going to expand very much. Prawns are the only alternative anybody can think of now.' Agriculture is also nearly paralyzed by arguments over land ownership.

Services and other industries? "They're very much influenced by the political climate. I think this has tremendous potential as a tourist country--it's so beautiful. But they don't have many other ways to sell their labor, except the obvious one.' The obvious one is the *** business, visible in every part of the country--and indeed throughout Asia, where Filipino "entertainers' are common

Filipinos pride themselves on their lifelong loyalty to family, schoolmates, compadres, members of the same tribe, residents of the same barangay. The mutual tenderness among the people of Smoky Mountain is enough to break your heart. But when observing Filipino friendships I thought often of the Mafia families portrayed in The Godfather: total devotion to those within the circle, total war on those outside. Because the boundaries of decedent treatment are limited to the family or tribe, they exclude at least 90 percent of the people in the country. And because of this fragmentation--this lack of nationalism--people treat each other worse in the Philippines than in any other Asian country I have seen.

In the first-class dining room aboard the steamer to Cebu, a Filipino at the table next to mine picked through his plate of fish. Whenever he found a piece he didn't like, he pushed it off the edge of his plate, onto the floor. One case of bad manners? Maybe, but I've never seen its like in any other country. Outsiders feel they have understood something small but significant about Japan's success when they watch a bar man carefully wipe the condensation off a bottle of beer and twirl it on the table until the label faces the customer exactly. I felt I had a glimpse into the failures of the Philippines when I saw prosperous-looking matrons buying cakes and donuts in a bakery, eating them in a department store, and dropping the box and wrappers around them as they shopped.

As in Latin America, the Spanish thereby implanted the idea that "success' meant landed, idle (that is, non-entrepreneurial or commercial) wealth.

The Spanish hammered home the idea of Filipino racial inferiority, discourging the native indios from learning the Spanish language and refusing to consecrate them as priests. (The Spanish are also said to have forbidden the natives to wear tucked-in shirts, which is why the national shirt, the barong tagalog, is now worn untucked, in a rare flash of national pride.)

America knows just what it will do to defend Corazon Aquino against usurpers, like those who planned the last attempted coup. We'll say that we support a demoncratically chosen government, that this one is the country's best hope, that we'll use every tool from economic aid to public-relations pressure to help her serve out her term. But we might start thinking ahead, to what we'll do if the anticoup campaign is successful--to what will happen when Aquino stays in, and the culture doesn't change, and everything gets worse.

SOURCE: http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...lippines/7414/

James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States, and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter.

[jdee12]

May nakita ako kagabi, along Bayani Rd. sa Taguig.
Toyota Fortuner V. I think 2008 model yata yun. Naka Euro plate na pang-motor.
Yung maliit pero malapad. Hehehe.
Bibili na lang ng Euro plate yung pang-motor pa.

[babynos01]

Meron nanaman ako nakita kanina... Bimmer nanaman.

Had only EU plates at front, pero sa likod EU plates + RP plates.

Di naman siguro nawala plaka niya?

Eto yung pix ng car niya. Dami picture netong M3 na 'to sa internet.



Ganda ulit, diba?

Baka 316i yan sir, pinormahan lang :D
Sige, 320i nalang )
It doesnt have the buldge on the hood!